Public R&D Grant Readiness
SBIR / STTR Readiness helps the founder or programme team complete a focused intervention on non-dilutive R&D work packages, technical merit and commercialisation narrative. Within Funding, Grants & Investment Readiness, it turns a broad or uncertain area of the venture into a concrete Bertie work product that can be reviewed, improved and reused. The task is intentionally discrete: it should produce a specific artefact, decision, evidence item or risk signal rather than general learning notes.
Complete a focused intervention that advances SBIR / STTR Readiness. The objective is to remove ambiguity around non-dilutive R&D work packages, technical merit and commercialisation narrative, give the founder a decision-ready output, and make it clear whether the venture should progress, repeat the task with stronger evidence, escalate to expert support, or move into a linked stage.
Bertie or a programme manager assigns Public R&D Grant Readiness when the venture needs a decision-ready output for this group. Typical triggers include group-gate reviews, evidence gaps identified by the co-pilot or founder request.
venture thesis; customer evidence; product roadmap; financial assumptions; current funding objective; specific context for non-dilutive R&D work packages, technical merit and commercialisation narrative.
Establish the exact parameters of your public funding strategy, aligning non-dilutive R&D capital with specific venture milestones. Identify whether grant funding accelerates your core technology roadmap without creating operational distractions or IP leakage.
ObjectiveDefining this scope ensures the venture targets appropriate non-dilutive funding bodies without compromising commercial timelines. It aligns team effort around achievable grant outcomes, ensuring public funding serves the broader venture strategy rather than dictating it.
What's expectedProduce a clear one-page alignment brief detailing the strategic purpose of pursuing R&D grants, target grant bodies, and the specific value-add to the core roadmap. Ensure explicit boundary conditions are set for acceptable time and resource trade-offs.
Open action arrow_forwardConsultant stress-test · 5 questions- 1.What specific commercial milestone will this grant accelerate that equity capital cannot fund more efficiently?
- 2.How will you prevent the administrative burden of grant compliance from derailing your primary product launch?
- 3.Why is public R&D funding the correct capital instrument at this precise stage of your venture's development?
- 4.What evidence demonstrates that your planned technical work aligns strictly with current grant body funding priorities?
- 5.How does securing this non-dilutive funding directly improve your leverage for subsequent private investment rounds?
- A data-room asset titled SBIR / STTR Readiness
- A clear task output, updated venture DNA and recommended next action
- It should update the venture DNA with specific evidence or decisions about non-dilutive R&D work packages, technical merit and commercialisation narrative, create a visible milestone in the founder journey, and generate one or more recommended next tasks
Bertie co-pilot maps funder or investor criteria to evidence, drafts and reviews materials, simulates evaluator objections, and updates the funding record. For this task, it should focus on non-dilutive R&D work packages, technical merit and commercialisation narrative, prompt the founder for missing inputs, draft or improve the output, flag weak assumptions, and record the result back into the relevant data-room section.
A mentor or evaluator can review the output at the group gate. Programme managers can require an advisor checkpoint before Bertie moves the venture forward.